The father of a 37-year-old man who was killed when a crane collapsed at his Everett, Massachusetts jobsite is remembering his son for his love of family and dedication to hard work.

Paul Ledwell Jr. from Middleboro died when the crane that was on top of a barge where he was working as a pile driver collapsed last week.

"Everything is over your head and heavy. It's either going to break you up or kill you, so he paid the price," said Ledwell's father, Paul Ledwell Sr.

Ledwell Jr. followed in his father's footsteps and became a pile driver, getting his union card right out of high school. His father says he graduated from Wentworth Institute of Technology but decided to go back to pile driving, using heavy machinery to hammer enormous posts into the ocean and in other projects. He al

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